Things that are awesome

[Tuckervill]

Tucker, that's un-awesome! What happened?

Weird day. I took my son, his two friends and my dad to Branson, MO, to go to Silver Dollar City (amusement park). Since my car only seats 4, we took my dad's car, and I left my Element on the curb in front of my dad's, like I had a million times before.

It wasn't until we got to Branson that we found out SDC doesn't open on Wednesdays until NEXT week! We had free passes for everyone, so I ended up springing for the boys to go to Ripley's instead, and play putt putt, so I ended up spending a LOT of money.

We came home early, of course, but not before my dad's wife got home from work. She noticed the wreck right away. The neighbors came piling out of the house when she got home and explaine thus:

The across-the-street neighbor apparently got in an altercation with a door-to-door salesman. I don't know why, but the neighbor tried to run the guy over with his car, and in the process sideswiped MY car! The neighbors also said this neighbor spent an hour screaming at the gas company service man in the front yard the day before. He's a whack job. Says he has insurance, but the cop who took the report was off by the time we got there and I still have not heard from him.

The estimate is $2,000.

I'll stop wrecking the Awesome Thread with the non-awesome, now.

Karen

[Mr. Bloom]

I'll stop wrecking the Awesome Thread with the non-awesome, now.

Karen

Nope, the awesome part is that it could have been a lot worse...

[Cataboo]

The awesome part is that you have a great story about how your car got wrecked other than 'some jerk sideswiped me at the supermarket'... you get to say "some crazy guy was chasing a door to door salesman and tried to run him over but hit my car instead"...

that musta been one fast salesman... was he on foot or in a car?

[channlluv]

That is quite the story. Thank goodness the neighbors were around to witness the whole thing.

Why was my day awesome? Hmmm...the best thing that happened to me today was that I could take a sick day with no grief whatsoever from my boss - she truly does rock - D*H was available to take DD to school for me, and I was able to get in to see my doctor's PA with a simple phone call. I even got to take a three-hour nap and I really, really needed it.

My blood pressure went dangerously low and I had a really bad dizzy spell. We're trying to get it regulated and for close to a year, I tried to do it with diet and exercise alone, but when that wasn't working, Dr. W put me on blood pressure meds in January. My body responded really well and we were able to half one of doses. I'm hoping this latest episode is an indication that I'm really to get off the meds all together.

So, while I started out walking into the walls, I end up maybe getting off my meds. Yay!

Roxy

[Tuckervill]

Nope, the awesome part is that it could have been a lot worse...

Yep, it can always be worse!

I still don't know what the argument was about, but I hope I find something out before the end of tomorrow.

I'm feeling better about it, although I can't stand to look at the gash.

Here's something awesome. My 3 yo grandson fell off the counter and dislocated his elbow--that's not the awesome part--his parents thought it was broken, but it wasn't! AND, they didn't have to reduce it because it slipped back into place while they were waiting in the ER. The picture of him in a sling was pitiful, though.

I'm count-yer-blessings kinda gal, but sometimes they're hard to see.

Karen